CHAPTERS IN A MYTHOLOGY: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
(New York: Harper and Row, 1976).
In this first full-scale critical study, Judith Kroll sees Plath s poetry as going much deeper than the autobiographical surface meaning, in fact comprising an entire, elaborate mythology - influenced strongly by Robert Graves s White Goddess - the ultimate purpose of which is to bring the poet into a kind of spiritual transcendence that resolves a number of intolerable tensions in her life... This brilliantly conceived book transforms our understanding of one of the most important and most intelligent poets of the twentieth century. -publisher. Item #15235
First Edition. 8vo, original quarter black cloth over gray boards in the dustjacket. A very good copy.
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